{"id":182,"date":"2017-03-03T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/?p=182"},"modified":"2019-01-04T08:39:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:09:51","slug":"smallpox-in-america-ch-1-3-week-of-mar-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/smallpox-in-america-ch-1-3-week-of-mar-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Smallpox in America, Ch 1-3 (week of Mar 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Smallpox_keep_out_of_this_house..JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/92\/Smallpox_keep_out_of_this_house..JPG\/800px-Smallpox_keep_out_of_this_house..JPG\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brandeis history professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/facultyguide\/person.html?emplid=cc84b70a5162bebdce92f6c74462793e2470f99c\">Michael Willrich<\/a>&#8216;s book about smallpox traces the complex interactions between medicine, public health, government and politics in the Progressive Era. We will read this book over several weeks, from March 6 to March 27. Please bring the book to class on the days we&#8217;re discussing the assigned chapters. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that the <strong>Conference Day for your Disease Project is Wed 3\/15<\/strong>. Your poster is due in class and you should be prepared to make a short presentation to your peers about your project on that day. Project guidelines, if you need them, are posted on Blackboard and in the left sidebar on this page. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon, March 6:<\/strong> Read <em>Pox<\/em>, Prologue &#8220;New York, 1900&#8221; and Chapter 1 &#8220;Beginnings&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some discussion questions to guide your reading and thinking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consider the subtitle. How is this an &#8220;American history&#8221;? Is it, in some way, a history of America itself? Or of the era? Where does Willrich locate the story &#8211; in the sick people, or the researchers, or the law, or somewhere else? Why does he begin the story in 1900, when smallpox is already a very old disease?<\/li>\n<li>How do race and gender intersect with the story of smallpox outbreaks at the turn of the 20th century?<\/li>\n<li>One of Willrich&#8217;s claims is that smallpox &#8220;sparked one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the twentieth century&#8221; (14). This is a surprising claim; why?<\/li>\n<li>Explain the difference between smallpox <em>variolation<\/em> and <em>vaccination.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Why didn&#8217;t the US go the route of compulsory vaccination laws, as in other developed industrial nations at the time?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 8: <\/strong>Read <em>Pox<\/em>, Chapters 2 &#8220;The Mild Type&#8221; and 3 &#8220;Wherever Wertenbaker Went&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some discussion questions to guide your reading and thinking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did communities, states and the federal government respond to &#8220;mild type&#8221; smallpox? Was Middlesboro, Kentucky, typical? What cultural factors made fighting smallpox in the South more challenging in these years?<\/li>\n<li>Describe the work of health inspectors like Wertenbaker &#8211; what did they do, and not do? What kind of authority (moral, legal, jurisdictional) did they have?<\/li>\n<li>What can you learn from these chapters about IDEAS of health and sickness at the time?\n<li>What do these chapters tell you about how the American health care system developed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandeis history professor Michael Willrich&#8216;s book about smallpox traces the complex interactions between medicine, public health, government and politics in the Progressive Era. We will read this book over several weeks, from March 6 to March 27. 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